"White Identity" Leader Plotting To Take Over The GOP
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Identity Evropa is pushing its members to stealthily infiltrate Republican politics to move the party towards its agenda of banning non-white immigration.
Patrick Casey blended in easily with the buttoned-up crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference held outside Washington D.C. earlier this year.
His boyish face was clean-shaven. His brown hair was close-cropped. And he shuffled between the networking breakfasts and panel discussions wearing a maroon sweater, matching collared shirt and crisp khaki pants.
But despite all outward appearances, Casey, 29, wasn't like all of the other Republicans at CPAC, the largest annual gathering of conservative activists in the U.S.
He wasn't there only to champion conservative causes. Casey had ulterior motives: to covertly spread the message of the white nationalist group he leads.
As the executive director of Identity Evropa, Casey is on a bold mission. "To take over the GOP as much as possible," he told NBC News.
Casey and his roughly 800 fellow members believe ethnic diversity damages the country. Emboldened by President Donald Trump's rhetoric on race and immigration, they advocate for allowing only Caucasians to immigrate to the U.S. in order to maintain a "white supermajority."
In Casey's perfect world, whites would live among whites in North America, Western Europe, Australia, and South Africa, blacks would live among blacks in Africa, Asians in Asia, and Hispanics in Latin America. "Ethnic diversity has been proven time and time again in many studies to be very detrimental for social cohesion, social capital, and it's just not a good model for society," he said.
Identity Evropa gained notoriety last year when it helped organize the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. The gathering of white supremacists ended with a white nationalist plowing his car into a group of counter protesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
Casey now sees politics rather than protests as the prime vehicle to carry his brand of white identity politics into the mainstream.
He knows that his extreme racial views are unwelcome in many corners of the country. So Casey takes pains to present himself as a clean-cut, upstanding young professional.
His group follows strict appearance rules: no visible tattoos, good grooming, only conservative clothing. When chatting up young people at events like CPAC, Casey knows it's crucial that he looks the part of your typical Republican booster.
"I didn't walk in there with, you know, an Identity Evropa flyer pasted on my forehead or anything," Casey said. "But I did have many great conversations with particularly the younger attendees, college Republican types."
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You never hear about these racist nut cases trying to take over the Democratic party.
Poor Republicans.
Last night Laura Ingraham of Fox News made an appeal , a dog whistle appeal, to the white nationalist segment of the republican party. She said that the Democrats want to REPLACE you ( the white people) with immigrants who will vote democrat.
Curious word in this context, "replace". New Americans such as immigrants do not "replace" old ones, they add to them.
So why "replace" ?
Remember Charlottesville?
"Jews will not replace us" ?
"You will not replace us" ?
Fox News Ingraham was signaling, not so coyly, to her white racist audience.